Love, Love, LOVE Nelson Rangell!!! I've been listening to him for over 20 years. Very much an underrated alto sax player, and he's one hell of a flutist and a mean whistler. No one can hold a note like Nelson. Rangel's style is very much in the David Sanborn vein. In fact, when I first hear him all those years ago, I thought he was Sanborn. Now, I've been listening to the both of them for so long I can easily distinguish the nuances of both their playing styles.

I have been listening to big bands for around 65 years , this one is up there with the best. It kicks !!!!

Bob Mintzer is Mr, Finesse as always!

He holds his saxophone like Sanborn.

Mintzer kills it

Truly on of the finest pieces of Jazz music ever written. GRP makes it soooo enjoyable.

Dang, thats one sick alto solo:)

I always loved this Nelson Rangell solo

>Randy's face at 1:00 Oh my sides, how amazing seeing "great" giving props to "great"

Amazing! Great music! Thanks for share it! Excelente versión del "Blue Train" de John Coltrane la grabada por The GRP All-Star Big Band en el Gotanda Kan-i Hoken Hall de Tokyo en 1993 con los solos de Nelson Rangell, George Bohanon, Bob Mintzer y Russell Ferrante. La composición de Coltrane abría en 1958 el álbum "Blue Train" editado por Blue Note Records que, grabado en los famosos Van Gelder Studio, es la única grabación de Blue Note con John Coltrane como líder. #Jazz #BigBand

1:24 when he looks at the camera. Badass.

bob mintzer is awesome!

thanks, beautiful JP

superb rendition...

Patituccis face of pure jazz groove 2:11 !!! :)

LMAO!!! After giving an awesome solo at 1:25 he raises his eyebrow and says "yea...im nice"

nelson Rangel playing a solo holing it for one long note

@Airegin247 the influence is there but Nelson has shown over and over again that he is his OWN artist...but yeah here its hard to tell....I love his solo...however

dae weckl on drums:) mmmm. CLASSSSSSIC:)

I'm liking this for John Coltrane.

@hgflyer1 he uses an ARB #6 mouthpiece

genial !!!

One clarification: it's Blue Trane, not Blue Train. It has nothing to do with trains. It's because of Col - Trane. John Coltrane was also called Trane.

The other guys are flashier but Mintzer swings his ass off.

@hgflyer1 He uses an ARB mouthpiece.

@logansGT i love notes like that!

first thing I noticed 2. nelson is no push-over however. thx

tom Scott on Bari. lately he p[ays only his tenor sax

@jhserres Considering Sanborn is blowing with one lung(childhood polio) i don't think he's a slouch!(-;

@jhserres No offense,my friend.I just found out about that last summer.I saw the trio of Sanborn,Joey DeFranceso and Steve Gadd open for Tower of Power!An amazing evening!

@mrthundaboots Actually I like David Sanborn. I got several of his CDs. Did not know he'd suffered polio and that he'd been working on just 1 lung. My respects to him. I can understand why Rangell would have a better lung capacity. I'd never say Sanborn is a slouch...He's actually played with the coolest like Bob James. The solo saxo in tobacco road by E.Winter(roadwork) is gr8, however Rangell outstrips this guy.....The most outrageous is Ben Webster / Coleman Hawkins

Honestly I would not compare Rangell with D.Sanborn. I believe Rangell is a far better Saxo than Sanborn or Edgar Winter, which is also superb. U can tell the lung capacity this guy has and how alto he could get, too! Ferrante is also a great pianist! He may not be Peterson, Ellington, Grusin or Evans but surely kicks butt, big time!

@TenorSaxBreed Fucking true man;)

How do they get that sound with only one bone?

Tsss Bob Mintzer pffff¡¡

much,,,much better then the coltrane version.............much better

Holding out a high G (a Kenny 'G'.. heh. heh.) for that long isn't that hard or hip. What is kinda hip is how he changes multiphonics in the middle.

can't stand sanborn clones.